Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Turns out that the problem was with a stale /var/lib/gdm – which makes
>> me wonder: we do we have this at all?  “/var/lib/gdm” is the “gdm” user
>> account’s home directory.  But it’s not like this really needs to be
>> persistent, I think.
>
> Yes, I wonder if it’s supposed to be persistent in the first place.  I
> guess ~gdm/.cache can help speed things up maybe, and perhaps there are
> persistent settings too, like the a18n stuff?
>
>> I moved it out of the way and the gdm login prompt appeared within a few
>> seconds.  After restarting xorg-server the directory was recreated.
>
> So I moved ~gdm/.cache and ~/.cache out of the way and restarted
> ‘xorg-server’.  After that, I was still unable to log in

I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories
around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account
(logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is fine.)

I even tried upgrading the user’s profile just in case is contained
incompatible schemas or who knows what, but that didn’t help.

What extra bit of state am I missing?

Thanks,
Ludo’.